Friday, March 24, 2017

I am here today with Lawn Fawns - "Lawn Fawnatics" first blog challenge. With the theme of birthday, which I don't own any of the Lawn Fawn sets, I had to get creative. So, I went digging through my stamps and dies to see what I could create. I used the Blissful Botanicals stamps and die set and the Chit Chat stamp and die set. I did a random stamped background, colored with watercolor pencils and did a few extra pieces to pop up. I used glossy accents on the leaf spray, flowers and birds. (You really can't see the glossy accents on the popped up elements, but it is there.)

Monday, March 20, 2017

Once again, spring has arrived. It is absolutely beautiful here in the mid-west. Little frost browned petals are floating about, today. It is such a shame that we had a bad frost and freezing temperatures a few days ago and it totally browned all the white budded trees. Oh well, spring has sprung.

I have very few Impression Obsession stamp sets, so I chose my favorite Hydrangea Dies for this challenge. I love the look of this card. I first started by water coloring a piece of water color paper with CTMH Dutch Blue ink. I then used my Misti for the correct placement of my sentiment from the Gardening CL630 set. I first stamped the sentiment in Dutch Blue, then with Versamark Embossing Ink and used a clear embossing powder over the sentiment. I then cut a grassy border using DIE60-I in the same green as my flower stem and leaves. I didn't have enough shades of blue paper, so I dug into a stash of paint chip cards. It was a Sherwin-Williams collection with 4 shades of blue. I only used three of the shades. My main flower head was Something Borrowed and the darker petals were Blue Azores. The lighter blue petals are North Holland Blue. LOL, Wow, I didn't look at the color names until now. Guess they go with my CTMH Dutch Blue ink. Thanks for stopping by my little blog.

Monday, March 13, 2017

Hello, again. This is my second post for the day. I have been having so much fun with this challenge from Impression Obsession, Fun with Flowers. I love flowers and it seems that 50% of my stash must be flowers sets. Before I started inking up the images in this set, Spring Blooms CL68, I had an idea of what kind of card I wanted. Well,,,,,, the idea never got any further. I wanted to use the square images... Nope, didn't happen. But, what I did make with these stamps, I am pleased with the results. So, here is the result of a few hours in the girl cave.

Well, I 'm back again with a clean and simple card with my Spring Blooms CL68 stamp set from Impression Obsession. I am on a roll this week with cards for the Impression Obsession challenge of Fun with Flowers. This card is simple, but has some fussy cutting, that may require a little more time.

I made a cluster of leaves and stamped a few flower to cut out. The sentiment is embossed. So simple . Thanks for stopping by my little blog.

Well, I am finally trying to blog again. I was so inspired by the challenge at Impression Obsession Fun with Flowers. You see, I bought this gorgeous Hydrangea Cling stamp and die set last October and I finally got inspired to pull that set out of the package.

I wanted a soft background and soft colors for my flower so I decided to use Royal Langnickel watercolor paper. Here is a picture of my desk and some of the supplies. After stamping my flower and leaves, I got a fine mist spritzer and finely misted until I got the look I wanted. I used the same watercolor paper, CTMH Outdoor Denim ink and Stormy Sky Distress Ink , to get similar and varying colors, so that I could die cut the tiny flowers. I just love the look of those tiny petals.

A bit of black cardstock, some watermark ink, white embossing powder and POW, you have a beautiful sentiment banner.

I really love this flower and die set. I made another card, but will post it later. Thanks for stopping by my little blog.